Faith, Fiction, Friends

After James 5:13-20   Do you suffer? Sing praise! Do you ail in body or heart? Sing praise! Do you hurt? Is your heart sick? Sing praise!   ...

After I Peter 5:8-14   The enemy prowls, roaring, seeking someone edible and vulnerable, so  be careful and watchful. Resist him; stand firm...

After I Peter 5:1-4   Shepherd the people given you to lead; be watchmen, not tyrants. Don’t lead because you think you’re forced to, but wi...

After I Peter 4:12-19   If you suffer for his name’s sake, be unashamed, be alert, be awake.   If suffering comes, then glorify God; trust y...

After I Peter 4:12-19   On the horizon and in your face, the trials will come, so bear with grace.   The fires will test, the trials will ha...

After I Peter 4:7-11   This journey we’re on, moving forward as the end of all things is here, this journey has only a few instructions, ins...

After I Peter 3:13-17   If you suffer, perhaps when you suffer for what is good, be of good heart, honoring him as holy, honoring the one yo...

After 1 Peter 2:21-25 We are sojourners, strangers in this world, sheep called back to the shepherd, sheep so loved that the shepherd suffer...

After I Peter 2:21-25 As he was called, so, too, are we called, called to suffer. Sinless, committing no wrong, he was called to suffer to t...

A fter I Peter 2:18-25 A slap, a punch, a spitting upon, a beating, ridicule, chains on wrists and ankles, jeering, stripped bare, laid agai...

After 1 Peter 2:18-25 It is inevitable, and  time will come or has already, that you do good or you do right and you suffer as a result. Or ...

After I Peter 2:18-25 An act of love, an act of obedience: the act is submission, and not to the just master (an easy thing to do), but also...

After Hebrews 2:5-18   Because he suffered, he was crowned king, the founder of earth, king, the one who sanctifies, king, the one given to ...

After Hebrews 2:5-18   In the midst of trials, it’s easy to forget the one who suffered and died, the one who gave you his name.   He was ma...

After Philippians 1:27-30 I sit in a prison, here, and write to you there. And it was there that I was once arrested  for fre...

You’re reading along in a book, part of a book discussion, nodding and agreeing, and then you hit a chapter that takes you off the rail...

Each of experience, or have experienced, times when we feel trapped, caught in a situation we can’t seem to escape, or even find relief...